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The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Explained: How Chemists Made Molecules Choose One Hand
Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai won for non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric synthesis: ways to make a reaction choose one mirror-image molecule. What chirality is, why medicines care, and how a tiny chance excess can take over, with an interactive model.
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics Explained: Catching Cosmic Neutrinos in the Antarctic Ice
Francis Halzen won for IceCube, a cubic kilometre of South Pole ice turned into a telescope, and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos from deep space. What neutrinos are, how Cherenkov light gives them away, and what IceCube found, with an interactive detector model.
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine Explained: Optogenetics, the Light Switch for Brain Cells
Deisseroth, Hegemann and Nagel won for discovering channelrhodopsin in pond algae and turning it into a light switch for neurons. How it works, step by step, with an interactive model linking it to nerve impulses at GCSE and A-Level.
Did AI Just Discover a New CRISPR? Claude, Bacteriophages and the ART Enzyme System
In September 2026 Anthropic said Claude agents found a new set of genes in viruses: a reverse transcriptase, a partner gene and a CRISPR-like repeat array. What was found, what is still unproven, and how to judge a science headline.
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